- Examples of delay differential equations(DDE), the simplest delay equations, Oscillation of Solutions
- Existence, Uniqueness, Continuation of Solutions, Continuous dependence of Solutions on initial conditions and Parameters.
- Stability theory, definitions, the method of Liapunov functionals, Liapunov functionals for authonomous systems.
- Linear autonomous equations, the dynamical systems point of view, semiflows and omega limit sets, semidynamical systems induced by delay equations,
- Strongly continuous semigroup, spectrum of generator, decompositions of C, characteristic matrices and equivalence, decomposing C with the adjoint equations,
- Principle of linearized stability, hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic equilibrium points, hyperbolic periodic orbits, stable manifolds, unstable manifolds and center manifolds,
- Introduction to theory of Hopf bifurcation for DDE, the center manifold reduction of DDE, approximation of local center manifold
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